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...Ibadan, Nigeria, Johnson spent most of her earlier years there until she moved to England for high school. As a freshman in Canaday, Johnson felt different from her peers, and although she was involved in a slew of activities, including minority recruitment for the Harvard Republican Club and Christian Impact, she certainly felt the weight of adjusting to Harvard life...
This is the most up-to-date study that attempts to quantify the impact of the H1N1 virus, the impact of which has been steadily decreasing in severity since it first hit the U.S. this April...
...overall message of this study is that, though individuals should still take cautions, the overall impact on our society is fortunately less severe than the upper end of what we thought was possible,” said Marc Lipsitch, one of the study’s authors and a professor of epidemiology at HSPH...
...photojournalism is one of the hallmarks of TIME, and our distinctive photo-essays go back to World War II combat photography. Pollack's team spent the past several months combing through thousands of images, searching for pictures that give extra insight into the events of 2009. We looked for impact, like Dennis M. Sabangan's photo of people displaced by floods in the Philippines; for surprises, like the shot Kate Westaway took of a playful humpback whale while she was snorkeling; and for poetry, like Douglas Mills' resonant picture of the Kennedy family at the burial of Senator Edward Kennedy...
...Lipsitch - to the President's Council of Advisers on Science and Technology last summer near the start of the pandemic. At the time, researchers had only patchy data on the number of people infected by, and seeking treatment for, the new flu. The initially bleak prediction of the impact of H1N1 - with up to 50% of the U.S. population becoming infected in the fall and winter of 2009, resulting in as many as 90,000 deaths - was based on modeling of previous pandemics. (See how not to get the H1N1...